The Toolshed, along with the following sponsors and organisations: Peter Baker Transport Caritas Koha Trust Nufuel Rotary Club of Frankton/Te Rapa have identified a serious lack of tools in the Solomon Islands. To help improve the living conditions and lifestyle of those living there, we are asking people to donate their surplus tools for us to arrange transport to the Solomons.
Donated tools will be shipped and distributed to Rural Training Centres and used to teach carpentry, mechanics, agriculture, and textiles. Training includes learning how to sharpen and maintain tools as well as using the abundance of local hardwood to repair or make new handles for saws, planes, chisels, shovels, and spades, etc.
ToolShed stores throughout New Zealand are collection points for unwanted, surplus, new, used and repairable tools. Tools required include hand tools, power tools, garden equipment, workshop machinery, accessories, and consumables.